Hannu Posti started during his active time for the Seurat Vuoksenniskan Urjeilijat association . He started at the European Athletics Championships in 1950 in Brussels over 5000 meters and finished fifth, as well as at the 1954 in Bern over 10,000 meters, where he was 14th. The high point of his athletics career was the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki , which took place between the two European Championships , in which Posti just missed a medal in fourth place, 3.2 seconds behind Alexander Anufrijew . In 1952 and 1953 he won the Finnish titles over 5000 meters, 1952, 1953, 1954 and 1955 over 10,000 meters and in 1951, 1952 and 1954 in the marathon .
In the 1960s, Posti became active as a biathlete at an advanced age and achieved even greater success here in this relatively young sport than in athletics. At the 1962 Biathlon World Championships in Hämeenlinna , Germany, he finished fifth in the individual and came second in the still unofficial relay competition with Antti Tyrväinen and Kalevi Huuskonen behind the representative from the Soviet Union. The success was even greater the following year in Seefeld in Tyrol . In the unofficial relay competition, Finland achieved the same result with the same line-up as the year before. In the individual, Posti won the bronze medal behind Vladimir Melanin and his compatriot Antti Tyrväinen. The last highlight was the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , where the Finn only achieved a mediocre run time, but finished eighth with only one shooting error.
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Hannu Posti in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
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